DOSbox – the perfect dos emulator

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Have you some old MS-Dos program lying around that you for some reason wish you could run, but as you installed Windows 7 64bit this is not possible!? Well then this is for you, DOSbox is a free dos emulator that does a REALLY good job of executing these old apps.  It will even emulate a SoundBlaster Pro soundcard so you will be able to get sound and all.  So if you have Monkey Island I lying around somewhere now is your chance to get all nostalgic 🙂  Oh yeah, it is as with so many other cool things FREE 😀 http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1 Watch how it can even run old DOS demos;
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MobaLiveCD – a fast way to test a bootable ISO.

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On the subject of ISO files (previous post), if you have downloaded a bootable ISO file and want to do a quick preview of it – then try MobaLiveCD.

MobaLiveCD is a quite simple little utility that will provide an instant emulation of a system, thus you start MobaLiveCD and tell it to ‘boot’ the ISO file of your choice and BAM without any fuss you will see the menu of this CD/DVD.  Really cool.  Ok, one minor issue with this is that the speed of the thing is not great, for starting small menu driven cd’s/dvd’s it’s great but for starting a Linux live cd it is hopeless – so I guess it’s more a tool to quickly see what’s on a cd/dvd than a virtual pc kind of thing – but hey it is free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwdv9TJah0
Available in HD


http://mobalivecd-en.mobatek.net/index.php

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Mounting ISO files

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Once in a while you get hold of an ISO file (an ISO file is basically just an image of a CD/DVD/BLUE-RAY disk) and need to access the content of this file, there are several ways of doing this;

1) You can burn the ISO file to a media and read it this way.

2) You can extract the ISO file to a folder using a utility (WinRar is very good at this).

3) you can mount the ISO file as a virtual CD/DVD eg. use Deamon tools lite.

I would suggest option 2 or 3.

Anyhow, David Davis has written a nice beginners guide on the subject, so be sure to check it out at;
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Mounting-ISOs-Windows-7-Free-Tools.html

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